The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-03-17
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

Severance; Frederick o. Andrews, Of Cliff
ton; William 81. MILAN, Of Leavenworth;
James Abel, of st. Mary's; Stephen ID.
Dorsuch, of jamestown: Isaac \. Hubbard,
of Cimarron; Wade h. Ward, of Fort Scott;
Nathan n. Mapes, of Haworth: Stephen D.
Reynolds, of Great Bend William Z. Ref,
of Marion, and John W. Long, Of Ell Dorado.
THE city OF Ellsworth offered to deed TO
the g. A. r. of the State, in fec simple, 64O
acres Of land 10 be devoted TO holding grand
army reunions and for such other purposes
as the Council Of Administration may deem
fit The land is to revert in time to the
Sons of Veterans. A committee Of seven
was appointed at the late encampnient TO
consider the offer and report at the next
encampment. This committee was also
authorized to receive and consider offers
from other cities.
THE numerous petitions sent in TO the
Legislature IN behalf Of municipal SUI
frage, which by a resolution of the House
were ordered TO be deposited in the
archives Of the State Historical Society,
were recently delivered to Judge Adams.
their future custodian. They will be bound
and classified according 10 counties, there
being voluminOus petitions from nearly
every county in the State.
THE new law prohibiting liquor at the
polls reads: That it shall be unlawful, 1T
any general or special election in this
State, for any person to have or keep any
whisky, beer, or other Intoxicating iq 'Ors,
in his possession or under his control, with
in one-half mile Of any voting or polling
place; or to sell. barter. or to give away by
treating or otherwise, any Of such iutoE-
icating liquors. to any voter at such general
or special election, within the vicinity OF
such polling or voting place. And any per
son so offending shall be guilty OF a INSIDE
meanor, and on conviction thereof shall be
fined in sum not less than 80, and I'M
prisoned for a term of not less than ten
days; provided, that this act shall not apply
TO any person holding permit to sell such
liquors"
THE following changes in railway mail
service in Kansas were ordered recently:
Leavenworth TO Meridian Junction, Leav-
enworth, Topeka & Southwestern railway,
forty seven miles; from March /, embrace
National Military Home, between the offices
of LeavenwOrth and Boiling. Kan, without
change in distance. Great Bend 10 Ness
City, Chicago, Kansas & Western railroad.
sixty miles; from March -, embrace
Alexander, Rush County, Kan, between
the offices of Rush County, Kan, and Basin,
without change in distance. Topeka to
Fort Scott, Kansas, Nebraska q Dakota
railway, one hundred and thirty miles;
from March 10, embrace Glenloch, Andcr-
son County, Kan, between the offices OF
Harris and Garnett without change in dis
lance.
On the morning of the Sth Garden City
had its first destructive FIRE 1t broke out
in the old Government Land-office block, il
the restaurant of Jacob Aller. was the re
suit of the explosion of a gasoline stove and
did over $4,000 damage. The wind was
blowing gale from the northwest or the
whole business portion OF the town would
have been destroyed. The fire worked north
to Dewstcr's drug store, but was STOPPED
by the pulling down of a small frame build
ing. 1t then burned west on Railroad street
and Eigth street, destroying the MytOn
block and the Metropolitan Hotel The
Santa Fe Company's depot and freight
houses caught fire several times but were
saved.
The term of DR.. A. A. Holcomb, State
Veterinarian, expires on April |, and as he
failed to receive the confirmation of tho
Senate he will probably retire. The APP
preparation for this department was cut
down by the Legislature from $4,000 to
81. 900, leaving only $500 per year for ex-
Commission.
ARTICLES Of incorporation of the Winfield
Texas & Gulf Railway Company were re-
Gently filed in the Office of the Secretary OF
State. The corporation is formed for the
purpose of constructing and operating a
line of standard gauge railway, and a line
of telegraph and telephone in connection
Herewith, from Winfield, Cowley County,
to the south line of the State, and from
thence through the Indian Territory to Gal
weston, Tex. Also, line of railway diverg
ing from the above line at a point near the
south line of Cowley County, with telegraph
and telephone lines, extending through
COwley County and the Indian Territory to
Fort Smith, Ark. The estimated length of
the railway is 500 miles. Capital stock
SI6,OOO,OOO.
In the case of E. c. Walker and Lillian
Harlan the Supreme Court has decided
against the plaintiffs who refused to marry
according TO the laws of Kansas The
court held in substance that all parties
wishing TO maintain the marriage relation
must comply with the law or take the
chances of punishment for adultery. Simp-
ly agreeing TO live together as husband and
wife does not comply with the law.
THE new law in regard to the shipment of
livestock provides that whenever any
shipper of hogs, cattle, sheep, horses or
other animals shall present his stock at any
railroad station, and to any railroad agent
in the State of Kansas, for the purposes Of
transportation, it shall be the duty of SAID
railroad agent TO count, or cause to be
counted, said hogs, cattle. sheep, horses or
other animals, and the number so counted
shall be by the agent named in the bill OF
L.
the railroad agent neglect or refuse to
count, or have counted, said stock, then the
railroad company employing said agent
shall be held responsible for the number of
animals specified in the bill of lading ac-
cordlng to shippers count.
THE wholesale grocery house of A. B.
Symns q Co, at Atchison, caught fire
from the furnace at nine O'Clock the other
night and one wing of the building was to-
tally destroyed, together with goods valued
at about sl00,000- The loss on the building
about $4,000, and the entire loss was COW
cred by an insurance of Sl30,000.
THE Legislature adjourned at six O'Clock !
p. m. on the 9Th.
KANSAS postmasters recently appointed: |
Nicholas W. Shelton, at Cedar Ford; Abel |
Washburn, at Belmont; Ira s. Mccoy at |
Cloverport, and Frank Mclaughlin, at |
Webster.
d. W. WIDER's term as Insurance Com |
missioner does not begin until July l.
SENATOR INGALLS, has returned home
PENSIONS were granted on the 9TH to the |
following Kansans: Thomas j. Meff, of |
Lyons; Jacob NJ. Price, of Topeka; Morris |
L. Burt, of Lawrence; John Giller, of Ga
lena; NJ. c. Calhoun, of Belmont; James I. |
Herriott, of Topeka; William II. Foreman,